Re: st: Trouble with quotes in defining macro

[Miranda Kim <mk@mrc.soton.ac.uk>]

Have got it to work after "playing around", though it's very messy and 
there is likely to be a much neater way...
Foreach var of varlist var1 var2 var3 {
   loc varlab `""`:var l `var''""'
   loc varlabs `"`varlabs'`varlab'"'
}

Miranda Kim wrote:
> I have the following problem:
>
> Within a loop I want to define a macro as follows:
>
> Foreach var of varlist var1 var2 var3 {
> local varlabs `varlabs' "`:var l `var''"
> }
>
> I want the macro varlabs to contain the following string ““lab1” 
> “lab2” “lab3””, where lab1 is the label for var1 etc.
> But I’m having problems with the quotes.
> I then want to use this local as an argument in another command and 
> that is why I wish it in this format with quotes around each label.
> I am using stata 10.
> Many thanks for your help.
>
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